George Church

Dr. George Church is professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of Personal Genome Project. His 1984 Harvard PhD included the first methods for direct genome sequencing and molecular multiplexing, which helped initiate the Human Genome Project. In addition to innovations that contributed to nearly all next generation sequencing methods, Dr. Church is a principle inventor of protein nanopore sequencing. He has founded close to a dozen companies in the areas of Genomic Medicine, Gene Therapy and Synthetic Biology, such as Editas, Gen9, WarpDrive, Joule, Knome to name a few. Dr. Church has also pioneered new privacy, biosafety , environmental & biosecurity policies.